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Friday, July 10, 2009

Books Columbia City Bookfest?

Posted by on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:33 PM

Some folks around town have been getting this e-mail:

Announcing
Columbia City’s
2009 Seattle Book Fest

Remember the old Northwest Book Festival on the waterfront? Seattle’s Columbia City community is bringing it back. It’s going to be very cool event with at least 50 authors in attendance and over 80 exhibitors. This is a grass roots effort with all the funding coming from participants. In order to get started we need you to sign up now.

The event will be held October 24-25 at the Columbia City Event Center, a charmingly converted historic school building at 3526 S. Edmunds, a block off Rainier and a block from the Columbia City Light Rail Station. So far the response has been terrific with dozens of local writers and bookstores already committed.

I have a call out to the organizers about it and I'll let you know when I hear more. This is not the potential Amazon-sponsored book festival I wrote about a few months ago.

UPDATE: Just got an e-mail from the organizers (via an address from Columbia City Cinema). It reads, in part:

so far, garth elliott, nancy rawles, matt briggs, anna balint, judith roche, mary guterson, jennie shortridge, ron dakron and several others have agreed to attend. fremontbooks, open books, bailey-coy, black heron press, rose alley press and a few others have agreed to take booths.

More information as it comes.

 

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Rotten666 1
sounds great. Columbia city could use a bit more culture.
Posted by Rotten666 on July 10, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Will in Seattle 2
Fremont Books - count me in!
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on July 10, 2009 at 2:02 PM
3
Two good posts in a row! Keep it up Constant!
Posted by Max J on July 10, 2009 at 2:04 PM
4
Bookfest on my birthday? Doesn't get much better than that.
Posted by jt on July 10, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Fnarf 5
What is "fremontbooks"? Do they mean Fremont Place Book Co.? That and Ophelia are the only bookstores I know of in Fremont.

Why does it not surprise me that Will is enthusiastic about a bookstore IN HIS OWN NEIGHBORHOOD that doesn't exist?
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on July 10, 2009 at 4:20 PM
6
Bookfest, yay!~
Posted by anonymouse on July 28, 2009 at 6:04 PM

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